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A 65-year-old Michigan man pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault in Superior Court in Chatham Monday.

Richard Fabian was arrested by Chatham-Kent police at the U.S. Marshals Service office in Detroit under authority of an extradition warrant Aug. 7.

Superior Court Justice John Desoti sentenced Fabian to one day in jail, to run concurrently with his five-year sentence being served in a U.S. penitentiary, a three-year probation, an order not to use computers or attend places frequented by children, plus a weapons ban, a DNA order and his name added to the sex offender registry.

Officers identified the location and the victim in a video taken some 17 years earlier.

The case involved an incident in 1992 at C.M. Wilson Conservation Area, where Fabian was accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl who was camping in the area with a friend, while a co-accused, Gerald Morgan, also of Michigan, videotaped the crime.